Nutritional Sciences

FALL 2019 GRADUATE COURSES

NTR 380K.3 Experimental Design and Statistics

This course is designed to provide the knowledge to evaluate nutrition claims and the research on which the claims are based. The course includes applications of statistical analysis methods for nutrition-based data, including principles of hypothesis testing, experimental study design, distribution theory, confidence limits, regression analysis, correlation, analysis of variance, non-parametric statistics, survival analysis, factor analysis, nutritional epidemiology and statistical power. The course will include analysis of data sets and interpretation of results.

NTR 392.2 Nutrient Requirements

This course involves an in-depth examination of the development of nutritional guidelines, including the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and the underlying research upon which they are based. The course also includes topics of scientific rigor and interpretation and a comparison of dietary guidelines around the world.

NTR 392.3 Nutrition and Cancer

This course outlines the molecular and nutritional mechanisms associated with the development and progression of cancer. Nutritional influences on cancer development at all stages of the cancer process, including the role of nutrition in chemotherapies and state-of-the-art molecular methods in cancer research are also explored.

NTR 392.4 Nutrition Immunology

This course prepares students to make recommendations for improving health through immune modulation using dietary components. The course will cover the clinically relevant aspects of immunology including inflammation, immune surveillance, allergy and autoimmunity. Students will also learn the current dietary strategies recommended to modulate the different aspects of immune function as well as understand clinical immune assessment and critically analyze and interpret current research findings.

NTR 392.6 Clinical Nutrition

This course presents the principles and practice of scientifically based clinical nutrition. Topics discussed include nutritional assessment (nutritional implications of the physical exam, laboratory studies, and more), macronutrients, micronutrients, phytonutrients, enzymes, and other factors in the context of clinical assessment and treatment.